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@@kasimasi6747 Im inclined to agree with a monthly python sketch being a normality these days. I'll make the words of Cartier Bresson mine, when I say that "one of these days besides the camera we also need a lawyer with us on the street"...

@@steveshadowphoto9346 it is indeed! There's another aspect that got away on this video. See I really only use it for the beach, and when that time goes away I usually leave a roll inside with several images already taken... The following year, after finishing and developing it's like re-discovering all because by that time those memories had already slipped my mind ... It's a unique feeling with that camera :)

Pois eu também sou assim... :) as coisas que se descobrem!!!

@@steveshadowphoto9346 do you want to laugh? I just bought, but like bought 5 minutes ago, a Nikkor 36-72, brand new, for 0.92 cents ... Yes, cents!!!

@@steveshadowphoto9346 Hi Steve! Many thanks for your comment. You know? There are a lot of myths in photography that people just hear and repeat it over and over to a point that they assume that it's a true thing. Nowadays when someone say something about a body or a lens, people just assume that it's true. The shame on all this is that they don't give space for trying it out for themselves. It's kind of "I heard my neighbour saying that beer tastes bad, so I'm not even going to try it out for myself.... Beer is blerghhh!!" . Another thing on my videos is that it's just the goofy way that I am... About 20 years ago me and my ex-wife were at a friend's house in Belgium. It used to be a former pre-school that was bombed out by the Germans during the Ardennes offensive. According to them, the house has since been haunted. One night, somewhere close to 2 Am , we were about to hit the sack when we heard our dog jumping and going for the bedroom door growling . We stood motionless as we heard long footsteps reaching for our door and seconds after someone, or something, knocked at the door. I looked at my ex-wife, looked at my growling dog, and said out loud : "Would you come in?"... And got slapped by my wife ...

@@paulodefeyter Now, that is a great story and is just what I would have said! And, I do agree with you about social media; people read or hear something and take it as the truth without really knowing. Over the years (since I first picked up a camera in the early 1970's) I've used a lot of equipment; some good, some bad, some expensive and mostly, cheap. Often, cheap was better!

Sim, mas sendo eu uma ávido fotógrafista de Preto e Branco, o Pôr-do-sol torna-se algo desperdiçado em mim....

That being said, Nikon F2 takes the lead :)

@@steveshadowphoto9346 hi there! I'm actually ordering a MF-23 back for my Nikon F4. I always wanted to have the speed and fstop number written between frames :) if you want to see more from the Minolta, just go and see the last video about the bullfights ... All shots were made with her... And they don't disappoint!

@@thevoiceman6192 not the F4. That one is magnesium alloy, heavy and durable. And the rubber doesn't become gunk on that model. The only Nikon I saw that happen, and that was gunk all over the place, was with my D300s

@@paulodefeyter The N 90's and N90s have the sticky plastic problem as well as the Canon Eos series and Minoltas.

@@thevoiceman6192 that name change on the Nikon cameras always throws me off guard. Here they are known by Nikon f90 (which is miles apart from the f100). I have a notion that went for "plastic-not-so-fantastic" as from the FM10... But I might be wrong and been sooner than that.

@@paulodefeyter Name change was American only. Everyone else had F instead of N.

@@thevoiceman6192 I'm waiting to get mine and a Horseman 970 back.

@@thevoiceman6192 I don't use colour that much as I never got around to like it. Last 3 years I probably did only about 75 rolls of colour film. I know it's not that much but I feel that I can better transmit a feeling or idea better via black and white eliminating the distraction of colour :) . Just to give you a better idea, I probably shoot about 200 rolls a year (that being 120 or 135) so the relation in these 3 years is 75 rolls of colour Vs 600 rolls of B'n'W...

@@thevoiceman6192 Hi there! I only use a fair amount of scotch tape around it, but I also have 9 brownies which I use every now and then. I don't have any Diana though, maybe I'll think on getting one soon :)

Dear Ge3ny, many thanks for your valuable information :) I did not know about that white body one :)

A Holga é uma máquina de plástico, que apresenta resultados finais interessantes... Mas não deixa de ser um "chasso" :)

Hi there! There was no need as the light conditions did not change and both cameras chose the same settings to shoot. Nevertheless the 600si can only do 2.5 shots per second and the Nikon f4 does almost 6. :)

Many thanks. I normally don't "hunt" for shapes and beauty on my street photography. I'm generally looking for a way to tell an idea or a story. I found out that if you tell a story, the image has a much stronger feeling than it has if I just look for shapes and good composition.

I also found out, very early on my film photography life, that composition is more natural to me on a 6x6 camera rather than the standard rectangular shape. When framing the image I don't really think about it on a Hasselblad, Mamiya or Rolleiflex as it comes natural. The same is not so on my Nikon Fs, as I tend to see>reframe>shoot very often :)

Hi Oli ! There are several cheap alternatives as long as you stay at the periphery of Lisbon and not inside Lisbon. The periphery is very well served of public transport and the public transport monthly pass, which will give you access to ALL public transports is just 30€. Lisbon is actually a very safe zone to walk and photograph. People are friendly and in a general good mood. It has been years that I don't have a street photography confrontation and the last one I had was with a "foreigner" tourist :)

Bastante mesmo :)

Hi Adrian! I actually dont have the MF23 back, so there's not much I can say about it. The only thing towards it, and this not only the Nikon F's but 135 in general, is that I'm shooting it less and less in favour of Medium and Large format :) But I got around 60 cameras in 135, so I need to pay more attention to it :). Just to give you a concise idea, I bought 5 years ago a Voigtlander Deluxe, which is still on its original bag and I never got around to use it.

@@paulodefeyter such a shame about those unused cameras. You definitely must make an effort and get at least a roll of film through them. I used to have a lot myself, took a 100ft/30m roll of Agfa APX400, and used 15-16 frame rolls to figure out which I enjoy the most. Sold most of what I didn't use and decided to keep what I knew I'd want to pick up later. But I definitely feel you with the medium format. Got a Mamiya RB67 Pro SD, and a Mamiya M645, both systems with various lenses that I can't put down 😂 Weirdly enough, I've been using a Canon IVf for the past two weeks, just because it's extremely portable, and I wanted to do more street photography. Although I've been using the M645 with the 45mm for that

@@adriancozma6102 Uuuuuh Geez I really have a lot of cameras. Do you know that feeling that a deal is too good that you just cant pass out? For instance the other day I bought another Rolleiflex for 130€. Now I got LITERALLY 7 TLRs in front of my 2 own eyes, just gazing at me and saying "Take me! Take me! Take me!!!" For the 135's I used to buy 50m rolls from Foma, divide it in 2 smaller rolls so that they can fit a standard bulk loader, and it would last me for a month, month and a half tops! Now I go through rolls of medium format and sheets of 4x5 like a mad man... I use at least 25 rolls of 120 per month.

@@paulodefeyter I just unboxed a Nikon F3 I got for $56, I have no idea what you're talking about 😇

@@adriancozma6102 THAT! Is a crazy STEAL deal.... You got it in a good shape?

Hehehehe! And I have two of them and I'm looking for a third one, that being with a serial of September 1975, that being the month and year that I was born. But yes, I really don't like this "very ugly duckling" from Nikon and my other F2 has the standard non-metered prism which I find it "okayish" on what concerns beauty. On what concerns this, I several times prefer the original F with the Photonic on top. I have a special relation with this camera as a few years ago I was in the hospital, fighting for my life during the first lockdown, and I asked for a camera to be "smuggled in" via the dirty laundry exchange. I was confined to a bed but keeping my mental health "alive" with a Nikon f by my side and a handful of rolls ASA400. Then, as I slowly recovered, hospital staff just got used to have a patient with a weird camera wrapped around himself at any given time :)

Aventuras mesmo :) mas mesmo assim prefiro o preto-e-branco.

This has got to be the very best "answer/notification" i read in about years and years! And I dare say that you are completely right! I guess that that's a point "up" to the Topcom. Please do tell me that she can also "shift" so I can just go there and caress her (I have her set up just right in front of me) due to my "own stupidity". I wonder what took the engineers behind Topcom to put everything on knobs, and to leave this thing out to be a "lever" that you have to press it down (I did went to the camera confirm! hehehehe) . you want to know something funny? I thought it was a pull lever to completely remove the front part and therefore do the maintenance on the bellows :) I doadmit that you teached me something new today, and my hat is off to you! Many MANY thanks for this Paul!

Very true. I actually say that "they are very good at being very bad"... But there is one thing that I like, and that is the fact that it forces you to think and try to find a sollution for its lack of capabilities, in order to have a satisfactory image :)

@@paulodefeyter that's true. They'd improve your photography game! But as far as film goes, I'm sticking with my vintage Japanese stuff 😏

Obrigado!!! :)

Compra duas :) Assim sempre tens uma doadora de peças caso a primeira falhe :) hehehehe Abraço desde uma chuventa Lisboa!!!

Se não estou enganado tenho todos os livros publicados por ele, dentro dos quais o "The Negative", "The Camera", "the Print".... :)

@@paulodefeyter excelente...

My hats (And I have some) are off to Fujifilm. Even today when I pick one up, it's buttons are exactly where they should be and it feels like Fuji was one of the few, if not the only one, who brought it's knowledge from analogue to digital and kept evolving it's products. I remember when Nikon launched it's flagship D1... It felt like a "off" machine, not even like a copy of a F5 brought to digital (Like Kodak did), and the menus were excruciatingly horrid to work with. There was one thing I liked about the D1, which still today only Fujifilm offers... A camera that reaches 1/16000 of shutter speed.

@@paulodefeyter ya, I just bought a Nikon FE2 because it offered 1/4000th shutter. It almost seemed like a novelty to have that fast a shutter, BUT, I threw some 800 ISO in the camera and on the same day handheld was shooting bright desert daylight... and nighttime street lit. Pretty impressive

Many thanks for your comment. I'll give you my opinion (which is worth only that) "Focus points" are mainly a selling issue rather than a practical thing. The machine itself focus the distance, which is only influenced by the Fstop you want it to be, meaning the higher the Fstop the more centimetres will be in focus. However there are people who like to have viewing screens to lit up like X-mas trees, and I think that they fail to realise that all those "points" are at the same distance of the one who actually did the focusing. By my own experience, with autofocus capable cameras, I'm perfectly happy on focusing and recomposing. I was the other day talking to a friend, and he was "jibbering" about his new sony and it's 700 AF points... And I was thinking: "Hey? You just need one!!"

Good afternoon and many thanks for the comment! Yes, they are surprisingly cheap given the ratio price quality. I guess that it's like buying a Harley-Davidson, where 50% of the price paid goes only for the name itself rather than the product. I have several Mamiya C lenses who are extremely sharp and contrasty, that do rival directly with the Zeiss lens of the either Rolleiflex and Hasselblad. However being bulky and "fatty" (The Mamiya I mean) is not always a bad thing as shooting in low light, which is the case of the Subway in Lisbon, is an added "Bonus" turning it more stable :)

Good morning and many thanks for your comment :) I will warn you that you will not see any difference between THE FINAL RESULT of yours C330f and a Hassy 500... The Hasselblad might make you look more visible, as people recognise it from "the movies" almost as much as a Rolleiflex. But in the end you will not notice a big difference between comparable lens, this meaning the SEIKO/Mamiya 80mm f2.8 and the Hassy's Zeiss 80mm f2.8 as they are both incredible and extremely sharp lenses. And if you look at the price level of both, with a Hassy in-between 900 to 1300 and the Mamiya C in the region of 200 to 350€, its practically a "no brainer". As mere curiosity, I also use the Mamiya on another project I ocasionally do, which is to use a 135 film, with adapters, on this medium format, taking full length images 24mm x 600mm .

Good morning and thank you for the comment! Yes, she's cumbersome, and compared to other TLR cameras, she looks like an "ugly duckling". But actually on low light situations, just like subwaystations and inside the train itself, the extra-weight is actually very practical as it helps stabilizing the camera more than another more lighter.

Isso é porque do vosso lado o conhecimento de Arte é quase nulo... Portanto nomes como Capa, CArtier-Bresson, Maier, são nomes que deverá pensar ser marcas de cigarros , não?

Many thanks from the other side of the globe :)